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Name

Description

JSON-based document store derived from CouchDB with a Memcached-compatible interface

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store info

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

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Score	31.29
Rank	#23	Overall
	#3	Document stores

Score	3.79
Rank	#72	Overall
	#13	Document stores

Website

www.couchbase.com

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2011

2010

Current release

Server: 6.0, October 2018; Mobile: 2.5, May 2019; Couchbase Autonomous Operator: 1.2, May 2019

4.2, May 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source info

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

.NET Client API
Java Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

.Net
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication info

including cross data center replication
Master-slave replication

Multi-master replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

MapReduce functions can be defined in Linq

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single-document ACID transactions

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts info

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

Access control on document level using the Authorization Bundle

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Specific characteristics

Couchbase Server is an open source NoSQL database engineered to support the agile...
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RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID)...
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Competitive advantages

Powerful Querying: An expressive query language that extends SQL and supports joins...
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RavenDB is easy to setup and secure. You can do it in a matter of minutes . Easy...
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Typical application scenarios

Real-time Big Data , Profile Management , Mobile Applications , Content Management...
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IoT for Edge Deployments Fraud Detection Recommendation Engines Product Catalogs...
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Key customers

Couchbase customers include industry leaders like AOL, AT&T, Ballyâ€™s, BSkyB, Cisco...
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Toyota, Capgemini, Vodafone, Medicaid, Asos, Nomura, RMS Automotive, MSNBC, Pluralsight,...
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Market metrics

2 million+ downloads 1000+ customers including Fortune 500 large enterprises
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Licensing and pricing models

All software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
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RavenDB is available on-premise and in the cloud. RavenDB Cloud is available on AWS...
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